The baby emoji is the internet’s shorthand for tiny, fragile, new, and painfully cute—whether you’re talking about an actual newborn, a new project, or your sourdough starter you won’t stop posting about. It often rides along with pregnancy announcements, baby shower invites, or “we didn’t sleep last night” updates. Online, it also serves big “I’m baby” energy—aka a playful way to say you’re feeling soft, needy, or want extra care, often paired with the pleading face 🥺. Flip it and it becomes a gentle roast: drop it after someone whines a little too hard and you’re calling them out for acting childish, but with a pastel blanket of humor.
On Apple devices, the emoji is a forward-facing, round baby face with a single curled tuft of hair, shiny gradient skin in that classic yellow-to-peach Apple style, bright dot eyes, tiny ears, and a small, sweet smile—no pacifier here; that’s 🍼’s job. It shows up in captions about “baby fever,” as a stand-in for “newbie” or “rookie energy,” and in cute-flex posts about pets (“my fur baby”) or Baby Yoda/Grogu fangirling. It can read flirty in a tongue-in-cheek way, but mostly it radiates protect-me vibes and wholesome reactions. Add sparkles ✨ or hearts 💗 to go full nursery-core, or pair with a calendar 📅 to tease a due date like the social pro you are.
Definition
The person is acting like a baby. Or a cute baby with one curl for hair.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
581 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:baby:
Keywords
Previous Names:
A Baby
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Portrait and Role Symbols
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Human/living Things
Unicode Subcategory
Portrait and Role Symbols
Names & Annotations
BABY
Symbol Information
U+1F476 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-1A9
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[赤ちゃん]
KDDI
#710 赤ちゃん 「赤chiyan」 U+EB18 SJIS-F3D9 JIS-7A5B
Softbank
#286 #old449 あかちゃん 「akachiyan」 U+E51A SJIS-FBBA
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 4 Code
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
Decimal HTML Entity

Hexadecimal HTML Entity

Hex Code Point(s)
e51a
Formal Unicode Notation
U+E51A
Decimal Code Point(s)
58650
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xEE 0x94 0x9A
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
EE 94 9A
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
356 224 232
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE51A
UTF-16 Hex
e51a
UTF-16 Dec
58650
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0000E51A
UTF-32 Hex
E51A
UTF-32 Dec
58650
Python Src
u"\uE51A"
PHP Src
"\xee\x94\x9a"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uE51A"
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
👶
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
👶
Decimal HTML Entity
👶
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
👶
Hex Code Point(s)
1f476
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F476
Decimal Code Point(s)
128118
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0xB6
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 91 B6
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 221 266
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDC76
UTF-16 Hex
d83ddc76
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56438
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F476
UTF-32 Hex
01F476
UTF-32 Dec
128118
Python Src
u"\U0001F476"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x91\xb6"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDC76"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
